Sega Saturn Virtua Fighters Remix Question

[Tempest]

Was the Remix of Virtua Fighter released in a regular sized Saturn case or only in one of those little cardboard sleeves?

Tempest

[chadtower]

I seem to remember seeing it in both a cardboard sleeve and later in a regular sized CD case... though now I remember it in a big case as well... I think the one that got mailed out was in a sleeve, then it was released to stores on a limited basis in the other forms.

[Atari7800]

I can't speak for any country other than the US, but VF Remix was released ONLY in the cardborad CD-sized slip case. I've seen a big-case version, but it was just a mock-up made up by a completist wanting a uniform collection. He had big cases for all the samplers and promos, too. Some people.

[chadtower]

I would swear I've seen it retail in the big case... not many times, usually in a clearance bin at an EB years ago or somesuch... I always thought it was odd that they'd even try to release it but I am pretty sure I saw it more than once.

[Tempest]

I've seen both, that's why I was confused.

Tempest

[chadtower]

The regular CD case version:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=27244

The large case version:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&category=3665

And I know of the sleeve version because that's the one that I have... IIRC I may have a couple because for some odd reason they kept sending them to me.

[RetroYoungen]

Hmm, I thought it was only a little sleeve cover. I've never seen it in a bigger case, so maybe I missed out.

[Gus]

Virtua Fighter Remix was definitely issued as a regular retail title in the normal oversized-jewel-case packaging. It was rather comical really because it was a) expensive ($62.95 at release) and b) every Saturn owner in the US who'd registered their Saturn or any games or even CALLED Sega for anything got mailed the cardboard sleeve version of VF Remix before the retail version came out. I only wound up with two VF Remix / Panzer Dragoon Demo / "That Virtua feeling" music CD packages, I was on the low end of the scale. Some people got up to a dozen.

My personal feeling at the time was that Sega was trying to push the $349.95 Saturn w/VF Remix package as a much better deal than the barebones $299.95 Playstation by pricing VF Remix so high. ("See? We're giving you this sixty dollar game for only fifty bucks...") but I was pretty cynical at the time.

Somewhere I have a $600 receipt for a Saturn, two games and an extra controller dated April of '95 that might explain that cynicism.